Roberto Juarez (1952 - )

Chicago, Illinois, 1952 -

American painter and printmaker, Roberto Juárez is a highly acclaimed artist who earned an important position in the art world since his first exhibition in 1977. His travels to Mexico, Rome, the Dominican Republic, and India have a definitive effect on his art. His works are inspired by visual sources across a multicultural spectrum which he then reinterprets in his unique way. Juarez gravitated toward the traditions of Hispanic and non-Western painting, decorative arts and crafts, including pre-Columbian motifs. An Asian formal esthetic, too, is evident in the division of many of his canvases into vertical sections like those in decorative screens.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2002
-The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

2001
-Roberto Juarez: New Big & Small Paintings, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado;
-Roberto Juarez, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
-Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
. - Recent Acquisitions, Bronx Museum, New York
-Roberto Juarez and Julio Galan, Richard L. Nelson Gallery & The Fine Arts Collection, University of California.
-Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota - Duluth

2000
-Taste and Home Decorating: New Paintings by Roberto Juarez, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington

-Roberto Juarez, Robert Miller Gallery, New York -Roberto Juarez: New Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, California

1999
-Roberto Juarez: Survey New York - Miami 1987-1999, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida
-Avocado Alchemy, Roberto Juarez: New Paintings, David Floria Gallery, Aspen
-Roberto Juarez: Falo Paintings, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
-Wildflowers, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
-Expanding Expressions: Contemporary Master Prints, Gallery 210, University of Missouri at St. Louis
- Paper View, Plaza Gallery, Fordham University, New York

1997
-Rome Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
-American Art Today: The Garden, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami

SELECTED MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS

-American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
-Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
-Denver Art Museum, Colorado
-J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
-Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri
-The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
-Miami Art Museum of Dade County, Florida
-El Museo del Barrio, New York
-Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Miami, Florida
-Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York
-The Newark Museum, New Jersey
-The St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri